These paintings were found in Spain, in a fifteenth-century monastery at Palma del Rio, Cordoba, where they hung in one of its corridors. At one time the monastery was Franciscan, and Father Junípero Serra sojourned there before going to the New World, where he established the chain of missions that led to the civil settlement of California. The paintings were created for the monastery after 1935 to commemorate the monastery’s connection to Father Serra and California history. It is not known when they were painted but they were in the monastery in 1964. The paintings, which are somewhat primitive in execution, are based on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prints and original works of art.